<ul><li>Security scanning of container images is crucial to detect vulnerabilities before deployment.</li><li>Tools like AWS ECR and Quay provide built-in security scanning features.</li><li>Clair, an open-source tool, offers Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers.</li><li>Clair updates its internal database from various vulnerability sources and exposes an API for security reports.</li><li>It is important to integrate security scans into Continuous Delivery pipelines to prevent vulnerable images from being promoted.</li><li>Clair Version 4 is preferred for its active development compared to Version 2 and unreleased Version 3.</li><li>Deployment of Clair on Kubernetes involves setting up a PostgreSQL database and configuring the Clair instance.</li><li>Creating secrets, deployment objects, services, and Ingress make Clair accessible for scanning container images.</li><li>Scripts using clairctl can scan images and fail the build if vulnerabilities are found, prompting developers to fix issues.</li><li>Integrating security scans in GitLab CI pipelines ensures continuous monitoring and improvement of container image security.</li></ul>

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